Alan Rickman

2022 - 12 - 17

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Alan Rickman Secretly Did His Own Script Editing On Robin Hood ... (/FILM)

Before Batman, Bond, and seemingly everything else got the gritty reboot treatment in the early 2000s, Hollywood tried a similar thing with none other than ...

It was a Hollywood take on Robin Hood and Rickman knew to play it that way. Something about the droll way he says "good" when [Bobbie Wygant](https://youtu.be/bvdySGxDQQs?t=88) tells him she enjoyed the film suggests to me that even with his additions he knew the movie wasn't going to become a classic any time soon. He was the one who came up with the idea to have He always appeared to take a thoughtful approach to his craft and there's no way that he would have found himself on the set of "Robin Hood" if he didn't want to be there. [love about "Robin Hood"](https://www.slashfilm.com/581691/robin-hood-prince-of-thieves-30-years/). Unfortunately, 1991's "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" didn't quite manage to pull off its attempt at a rebrand of the classic English hero.

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Alan Rickman Thought Of Harry Potter's Set As An Army Camp - /Film (/FILM)

'They had a clipboard for the stuff they had to hit every day. And sometimes there were 300 children on set.'

"I don't think anyone else could have wrangled 30 kids and kept us all focused and happy in the way that he did," Radcliffe [told GQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=177&v=0acJuZsr_nQ&feature=youtu.be) in a 2022 interview. "We never knew what was going to be put in around us, because they could do it so beautifully by the end," he [2015 interview with Empire](https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/alan-rickman-interview/), he talked about his experience on the set of those movies, and it all sounded exhausting. While most scenes were filmed with practical effects in the early films (which is more time-consuming for the actors), things in the later movies went faster because the effects could be added in later. Although we know now that Rickman wasn't always having a great time during these movies, at least the set became a little less like an army camp by the end. [we've covered before](https://www.slashfilm.com/1025714/severus-snape-actor-alan-rickman-didnt-like-the-harry-potter-movies-and-kept-trying-to-quit/), Alan Rickman wasn't always a huge fan of the "Harry Potter" movies he spent over a decade starring in.

Alan Rickman Thought Of Harry Potter's Set As An Army Camp - IMDb (IMDb)

As we've covered before, Alan Rickman wasn't always a huge fan of the "Harry Potter" movies he spent over a decade starring in.

"It was like being in an army camp, because the pressure on the producers was so intense," he explained. In a 2015 interview with Empire, he talked about his experience on the set of those movies, and it all sounded exhausting. [Alan Rickman](/name/nm0000614/)wasn't always a huge fan of the "Harry Potter" movies he spent over a decade starring in.

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